THE IMPACT OF CARE- CENTER GROUP DISCUSSION ON HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS’ CAREGIVER BURNOUT

According to the development of chronic diseases, including chronic renal failure
and the appearance of physical and mental problems that occurs to them during the period of disease
and Treatment process, they require a person to take care of them. Caregiver that he/she is a family
member of a patient in the care process may be faced with many problems that eventually led to the
emergence of burnout in it gets. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of care centered group
discussion on the caregiver burden of patients undergoing hemodialysis.
Materials & Methods: This study was a randomized clinical trial. Participant of this study contain 70
caregivers of patients undergoing hemodialysis in educational therapeutic centers in Urmia. Caregivers
selected and allocated randomly in two groups of intervention (group discussion) and control.
Demographic and caregiver burden questionnaire completed by caregiver before the intervention. This
program consists of 6 sessions of group discussion during 6 weeks. Two weeks later of intervention the
caregiver burden of questionnaire will be completed by caregiver in intervention and control groups. At
next the data obtained from questionnaire analysis of descriptive and analytic statistics.
Results: Results showed that there was no significant difference between the study and control groups
before intervention in the mean scores of burnout and its dimensions (p>0.05.). But after the intervention
there was significant difference in the mean scores of burnout and its dimensions between intervention
and control groups (p<0.05.).
Conclusion: The results of this study can be found that training classes such as group discussion had a
significant reduction in the severity of caregiver burnout. Therefore it is recommended that in the Health
system planning attend to the role of family members in the treatment of these patients also benefit from
this training method